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Consular conundrum: the rising demands and diminishing means for assisting Australians overseas [PDF]

Australians are travelling more than ever. In 2012, they took more than eight million trips overseas, more than double the number a decade ago.  Public expectations of the assistance government can provide when travellers encounter trouble are ...
Alex Oliver
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source

Developing a Contextually Relevant Concept of Regional Hegemony: The Case of South Africa, Zimbabwe and “Quiet Diplomacy” [PDF]

South Africa’s “quiet diplomacy” has been often used to reject the notion of South African leadership or regional hegemony in southern Africa. This article finds that this evaluation is founded on a misguided understanding of regional hegemony, which is ...
Miriam Prys
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Pandemic diplomacy and patron-client relations in Sino-Serbian cooperation. [PDF]

China Inf, 2023
Kowalski B, Rekść M.
europepmc   +1 more source

CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
wiley   +1 more source

Diplomatic drones? How states exploit drone exports for leverage

European Journal of International Security
How do states use drone exports to build their leverage with buyers? The scholarly literature acknowledges that states use arms exports to cement alliances, improve the capacities of allies and support their domestic arms industry.
Michael J. Boyle, Wojtek Wolfe
doaj   +1 more source

Indonesia at home and abroad: economics, politics and security [PDF]

Overview: This inaugural suite of papers for the National Security College Issue Brief Series is also a component of an NSC research grant investigating the prospects, challenges and opportunities associated with Indonesia’s ascent in the political ...
Ahmad Habir, Christopher Roberts, Leonard Sebastian   +2 more
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Reflections: the UK after Brexit. [PDF]

Int Polit (Hague), 2023
Oliver T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Proyecto para un Nuevo Siglo Americano y la ideologización de la Diplomacia estadounidense

Historia y Comunicación Social, 2005
The remilitarization of American Diplomacy comes previous to September 11th. The main strategic principles for the post Cold War era were defined during the Presidency of the former Bush by the same officials who have designed and set up the current US ...
María Paulina Correa Burrows
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